Re: [PyX-user] latex and dvipdfm problem

[Thomas P. <Tho...@rr...>]

Hi Arnd,
maybe this problem is related to the negative
bounding boxes of EPS files generated by PyX which
has been discussed here:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7303626&forum_id=23700

Best,
Tom

Arnd Baecker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a funny problem when embedding a PyX graphics into
> latex and converting the resulting dvi to pdf via dvipdfm:
> 
>   python gen_fig.py
>   latex embed.tex
>   dvipdfm embed
>   acroread embed.pdf
> 
> then the plot has no axes labels.
> Here
> ### gen_fig.py
> from pyx import *
> g = graph.graphxy(width=10)
> g.plot(graph.data.function("y(x)=sin(x)", min=-1, max=1, points=1000))
> g.writeEPSfile("fig")
> ###
> 
> and
> %%%% embed.tex
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}
> \begin{document}
> \includegraphics[width=10cm]{fig.eps}
> \end{document}
> %%%%
> 
> I am using:
> - pyx.__version__: '0.8+'
> - dvipdfm -v
>   dvipdfm, version 0.13.2c, Copyright (C) 1998, 1999 by Mark A. Wicks
> 
> I have no idea if this is in any way related to the recent
> thread on "Palatino font not embedded in PDF"
> or if this is just a bug in dvipdfm?
> 
> If you change gen_fig.py to
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> from pyx import *
> c = canvas.canvas()
> g1 = graph.graphxy(width=10)
> g1.plot(graph.data.function("y(x)=sin(x)", min=-1, max=1, points=1000))
> c. insert(g1)
> g2 = graph.graphxy(width=10, ypos=g1.ypos-1.2*g1.height)
> g2.plot(graph.data.function("y(x)=cos(x)", min=-1, max=1, points=1000))
> c. insert(g2)
> c.writeEPSfile("fig")
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> the second graph is not shown at all (in the .pdf).
> 
> The `dvips embed ;  ps2pdf embed.ps ; acroread embed.pdf `
> chain works without problems...
> 
> Best, Arnd
> 
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